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NASA Technology Projects

Search NASA's TechPort inventory — every technology R&D project the agency has tracked, active and completed. Harvested gradually in the background (TechPort only exposes one project per API call, ~21,000 total), so the list grows over time rather than all at once.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 125 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Computationally efficient adaptive wavefront control for coronagraphy using algorithmic differentiation Completed — Mirror Systems NASA Headquarters
Development of Skipper CCDs for Robust Single-Photon Measurements in Future NASA Missions Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of Chicago
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy for the Next Decade Enabled Through Nanofabrication Techniques Completed 4 Optical Components Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Development and Testing of a miniaturized Double Langmuir Probe for Small-satellite Platforms Completed — In Situ Instruments and Sensors Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach
Development of a novel charge readout for a liquid Argon MeV Gamma-Ray Telescope Completed — In Situ Instruments and Sensors SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
CMOS Sensors for Soft X-Ray Detection Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of Iowa
Improving the Sensitivity and Robustness of Compton Telescopes through the Development of Single-Crystal Diamond Scattering Layers Active — Detectors and Focal Planes TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
COmposition and Dynamics EXperiment in the topside ionosphere (CODEX) Active — Field and Particle Detectors Southwest Research Institute - Boulder
Efficient mid-IR superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for exoplanet science Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ultra-Sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Low-Background Space-Based Astronomy Active — Other Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Ultra-stable Telescope Metrology Development for High-contrast Exoplanet Detection Completed 3 Structures and Antennas NASA Headquarters
solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment (PADRE) Active — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Berkeley
ULTRA: Ultrastable Large Telescope Research & Analysis (ULTRA) Completed 2 Structures and Antennas Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Astrophysics Miniature UV Spatial Spectrometer (AMUSS) Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A New HOPE for Ionospheric Outflow and Cold Magnetospheric Plasma Measurements Active — In Situ Instruments and Sensors TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
Developing Laboratory-Scale Active Segmented Telescopes to enable the next stage of Coronagraphic Testbeds Active — Observatories Space Telescope Science Institute
High-order Wavefront Control for High-contrast Imaging on Space-rated Processors Completed — High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multi-detector Experiment for next-Generation Applications in Heliophysics (MEGA-H) Active — Sensing and Perception Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
NASA Contributions to LISA: Space-based Gravitational Wave Laser Technology Development Project for the LISA Mission Completed 4 Lasers —
Extremely Low-noise, High Frame-rate X-ray Image Sensors for Strategic Astrophysics Missions Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSFC Advanced X-Ray Optics: Formulation to Flight Completed — Optical Components NASA Headquarters
ComPair: A Next Generation Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype Active — Other Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Super Resolving Astronomical Targets by Leveraging Quantum Measurements Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Multi-Star Wavefront Control: Continued development and maturation for Roman CGI and Astro2020 flagship Completed 3 Optical Components NASA Headquarters
Ultrasensitive Far-IR Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for Space Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Four megapixel sensor for ultra-low-background shortwave infrared astronomy Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Hawaii at Manoa
NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler (NEID) Spectrograph (NEID) Completed 8 Mirror Systems NASA Headquarters
ASTHROS: Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ultrasensitive Far-IR Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays: Maturation for Flight Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MANTIS: Monitoring Activity from Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy Active — Observatories University of Colorado Boulder
Large Format, High Efficiency, UV/Optical/NIR Photon Counting Detectors Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Modeling and Testing Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Astrophysics (KIDs) Completed — Electronics University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scaling of single-photon sensor arrays through monolithic semiconductor-superconductor integration Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors National Institute of Standards and Technology
Large-Format X-ray Zone Plates: Enabling Flight-like Calibrations for Future Missions Completed — Optical Components Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Providing Enabling & Enhancing Technologies for a Demonstration Model of the Athena X-IFU Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
COUSIN: A Study of Small-Scale Auroral Region Energy Deposition Completed — Field and Particle Detectors University of Iowa
Next generation bolometric microwave SQUID multiplexer Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes National Institute of Standards and Technology
A low-order hardware implementation for sensing and control in exoplanet imaging Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Normal-incidence mirror for narrow-band X-ray imaging of circumgalactic medium Completed — Optical Components NASA Headquarters
WindCube: A CubeSat Thermospheric Wind Instrument Completed — Sensors and Instruments National Center for Atmospheric Research
Adaptive High-order Wavefront Control Algorithms for High-contrast Imaging on the Decadal Survey Testbed Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
X-Ray Speed-Reading: Integrated Readout Technology for Fast, Very Low-Noise, Megapixel X-Ray Imaging Detectors Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Stanford University
HIRSL: a High-Resolution Spectrograph in Lyman-α (HIRSL) Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Boston University
Terahertz Correlation Receiver for the Detection of Water in Planet Forming Disks (Trex) Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A High-Performance Ultraviolet Photon Counting Detector for Strategic Astrophysics Missions Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Polymer actuators for high-resolution X-ray optics Completed — Optical Components Washington University in St Louis
Aligning high-resolution X-ray telescope mirrors using adjustable-height spacers Completed — Optical Components University of Arizona
Development of a 30 mK ultra-low temperature Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator with a continuous 700 mK intermediate stage for heat intercept (CADR) Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems NASA Headquarters
A prototype flight for the GRAMS project Completed — Other Sensors and Instruments Northeastern University
Demonstration of Advanced Wavefront Control for Segmented Aperture Telescopes Active — Observatories Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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ℹ️ About this data
  • Sourced from NASA TechPort, NASA's public technology-project inventory. Harvested gradually into our own database — TechPort's API only returns one project's full detail per call, so ~21,000 projects take a while to cover.
  • TRL (Technology Readiness Level) is NASA's 1-9 scale for how mature a technology is: 1-3 is basic research/concept, 4-6 is lab/relevant-environment validation, 7-9 is flight-proven. Lower TRL generally means more room for outside research contribution; higher TRL means something closer to a finished, licensable technology.
  • "Active" vs "Completed" reflects TechPort's own project status, not funding availability — see the insights page for how to actually act on this.
💻 Show API usage example (cURL) 
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/nasa-tech-projects/api?q=laser&status=Active&sort=trl&page=1"

Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.